Kendall,

That looks like what I was looking for—not sure how I didn’t stumble on that aspect of the curl command—I had expected there to be something like that but hadn’t found it.

I will pursue that approach.

I also realized that the databases I’m loading to need to have UPDINDEX turned on in order to have the various indexes automatically updated when new files are loaded (although with a multi-file POST end point, the end point could do the DB optimization after loading the files, which will be more efficient, I think).

Thanks,

E.

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From: BaseX-Talk basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of Kendall Shaw kshaw@kendallshaw.com Date: Friday, August 18, 2023 at 7:59 AM To: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Use Bash to construct multi-file form submission [External Email]

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Hi Eliot,

In case you are still working on this, there is --config/-k where you can specify curl arguments. I think that would avoid bash parsing.

Best, Kendall On 8/15/2023 8:00 AM, Eliot Kimber wrote: This is not strictly a BaseX question but it is in the context of communicating with a BaseX-implemented REST service and I’m hoping someone in this community can answer my question as I’ve not found a solution the interwebs.

I’ve implemented a POST method that expects a multi-part form request with multiple files that then loads those files into a database. The files are all related such that I want something close to an atomic commit for the set of files. Thus the multi-file form approach.

The REST method works and I can use from the command line using curl, i.e:

curl --location http://localhost:9984/now/rest/validation/reports?debug=falsehttp://localhost:9984/now/rest/validation/reports?debug=false \ --form 'files=@"/Users/eliot.kimber/git-basex/product-content-analytics/validation-reports/vancouver/bundle-strategic-portfolio-mgmt_errors_vancouver_2023-08-14T22~11~28Z_1ae692f8_1692054936.xml"' \ --form 'files=@"/Users/eliot.kimber/git-basex/product-content-analytics/validation-reports/vancouver/bundle-tech-technology-industry_errors_vancouver_2023-08-14T22~11~28Z_1ae692f8_1692054971.xml"'

What I haven’t been able to figure out is how to construct the equivalent curl command in a bash script, where the script gets a list of flies to load and then constructs the –form parameters.

Everything I’ve tried results in a “Warning: Trailing data after quoted form parameter” message or some more utter failure.

It must be some subtlety of how to escape the quotes—my googling around produces lots of stack overflow discussions of how to manage the escapes, but nothing I’ve tried has so far worked.

My bash approach is simply:

curlcmd=”curl --location …” for file in ${files[@]}; do curlcmd+=” --form ‘files=@\”${file}\”’ done

And then execute the resulting string:

bash -c $curlcmd

I have a separate script that successfully constructs a curl call to a companion end point that takes one file:

curl \ "--location" "${serverUrl}:${serverPort}/now/rest/validation/report/${fileName}?debug=${debug}" \ "--header" "Content-Type: text/xml" \ "--data-binary" "@${filePath}"

And I’m currently just calling this for each file, which is OK.

But I’d really like to be able to send a set of files as a single REST call. Thanks,

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